Former WBC junior middleweight champion Tony Harrison is still in disbelief that Tim Tszyu decided to risk his mandatory status by facing him on March 11. Harrison will travel to Australia to face Tszyu - with the vacant WBO interim-junior middleweight title at stake. Showtime will televise the fight in the United States. Tszyu is the WBO's mandatory challenger to ...
BJ Flores, who trains Youtube star turned boxer Jake Paul, is backing his man to demolish Tommy Fury on February 26 in Saudi Arabia. Fury, the younger brother of WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury, is unbeaten with an 8-0 record and 4 wins by knockout. Paul, while undefeated with a 6-0 record, has never face an actual pro boxer in the ...
Hard-hitting KO artist Subriel Matías plans to kick start a big year for his native Puerto Rico when he faces unbeaten Jeremias Ponce for the vacant IBF 140-pound world title this Saturday, February 25 headlining live on Showtime from The Armory in Minneapolis in a Premier Boxing Champions event. “I represent both my country of Puerto Rico and my city ...
Former super middleweight world champion Carl Froch has reversed his opinion with respect to last Saturday's stoppage in the WBA featherweight title fight between Leigh Wood and Mauricio Lara in Nottingham. Wood was well ahead on the official scorecards, when Lara connected with a perfect left hand in the seventh round - which dropped Wood hard on his back. Wood ...
The oft-postponed fight between EBU super lightweight champion Enock Poulsen (12-0) and mandatory challenger Franck Petitjean (23-6-3) is on again and this time scheduled for April 29 with site still being Creteil (France) with Y 12 promoting the event. The rematch between these two fighters was postponed so often by Y12, who won purse bids, that Poulsen was given permission ...
Dmitriy Salita is confident the fighter he promotes can upset Anthony Joshua in part because he sees some similarities between Jermaine Franklin and Andy Ruiz Jr. Ruiz famously floored Joshua four times and stopped the heavily favored IBF/IBO/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion in the seventh round of their June 2019 fight at Madison Square Garden in New York. Franklin intends to pull ...
Vasiliy Lomachenko thinks Gervonta Davis has all the key attributes to get his hands raised on the night he takes on Ryan Garcia. The three-division titlist from Ukraine recently offered his prediction on the ballyhooed 12-round, 136-pound bout between Baltimore’s Davis and Victorville, California’s Garcia that is projected to land on Showtime Pay-Per-View on April 15 in Las Vegas. “I ...
Keyshawn Davis placed his Christmas shopping on pause as he took in the sights on December 17th, as Frank Martin squared off against Michel Rivera. Initially, their highly publicized lightweight showdown captured the imagination of the former Olympic silver medalist. Although Davis (7-0, 5 KOs) was under the impression that Rivera would box his way to a victory, Martin proved ...
Former unified cruiserweight world champion Murat Gassiev is scheduled to return to the ring on March 3 in Yerevan. Gassiev will face American heavyweight contender Mike Balogun in the main event of a card taking place at the Demirchyan Arena. The event’s general partner is the Liga Stavok betting company, while the organizers are promotional outfits Patriot and Ural Boxing ...
Fresh off a breakout year that saw her become the leading atomweight submission grappler on the ONE Championship roster, Danielle Kelly is ready to take another huge step forward and carve her name into the history books in 2023. Kelly will open her campaign for the new year at ONE Fight Night 7: Lineker vs. Andrade II on Friday, February ...